Profession fortune teller

Fortune tellers claim to foretell future events about a person's life and provide clients with their interpretation. They often use various techniques such as card reading, palm reading or tea-leaves reading.  

Knowledge

• Rhetoric

  The art of discourse that aims at improving the ability of writers and speakers to inform, persuade or motivate their audience.

• Fortune-telling techniques

  The methods or objects that are used by fortune tellers to interpret and predict the future, such as card reading, palm reading or tea-leaves reading.

• Occultism

  The study of occult arts or practices, the belief in supernatural powers. These practices include alchemy, spiritualism, religion, magic and divination.

Skills

• Give advice on personal matters

  Advise people on love and marriage issues, business and job opportunities, health or other personal aspects.

• Maintain customer service

  Keep the highest possible customer service and make sure that the customer service is at all times performed in a professional way. Help customers or participants feel at ease and support special requirements.

• Develop professional network

  Reach out to and meet up with people in a professional context. Find common ground and use your contacts for mutual benefit. Keep track of the people in your personal professional network and stay up to date on their activities.

• Use consulting techniques

  Advise clients in different personal or professional matters.

• Maintain privacy of service users

  Respect and maintain the dignity and privacy of the client, protecting his or her confidential information and clearly explaining policies about confidentiality to the client and other parties involved.

• Promote yourself

  Market one's own strengths in terms of skills and knowledge.

• Prospect new customers

  Initiate activities in order to attract new and interesting customers. Ask for recommendations and references, find places where potential customers can be located.

• Assess character

  Assess how a certain person will react, verbally or physically, in a specific situation or to a specific happening.

Optional knowledge and skills

Source: Sisyphus ODB